Get a full-time job and support yourself 100%. Then you will be emancipated.
Get a full-time job and support yourself 100%. Then you will be emancipated.
The only emancipation statute I see for Hawaii relates to marriage:
Quoting Hawaii Statutes § 577-25 - Emancipation of certain minors.
The only state that will even consider emancipating a 15 year old is California, and for it to happen in California you'd better be either a successful child actor or a nationally recognized athlete.
I agree with the Ca. laws. You had better learn to get along with your parents. No judge in their right mind will let a 15y/o care for themselves unless they are indepently wealthy and have an adult supervision over them and their money. You mention that another family is willing to care for you. Are they also going to pay for all of your care and bills? No judge will order the parent to pay another party unless they agree to.
I got a therapist. she's great, but i have a feeling she will attempt to make me forget about the emacipation. Except, i know this is what i want. At this point, there is no point in building a relationship with my mom. She's just so depressing. She tells me that she expect's me to get pregnant soon, like i'm some sort of slut. That along with all the other put downs from everyone. I can't take it anymore, I NEED out.
I can, and do support myself [mostly]. I babysitt at least once every week and make a couple hundred dollars every month. Anything I want, I buy for myself.
Also, about what I said before, about having people who are willing to take me in until i graduate. There are actually two families.
I'm really not happy where I am. My mother thinks that my emacipation idea is just so I can go back to see my friends, but she is my problem.
Do you know where I can get the papers?
I would like do have the emancipation take place in california.
But if that is not possible, then can someone tell me how to solve my situation?
p.s. please excuse my language.
Natasha, please listen.
1.) Your state does not provide emancipation for minors, particularly not 15 year old minors, unless you have been married. NO state will allow a 15 year old to be married without parental consent.
2.) You cannot be emancipated in California, because you do not live in California. Nor will California emancipate a 15 year old except in very rare circumstances which do not apply here. The various states are not in the business of allowing someone to bypass their own state's laws.
3.) Just because you want to be emancipated, does not mean it will happen.
Emancipation is hard. It's supposed to be hard. Very, very few teens are granted legal emancipation under any circumstances. A source that I have reason to trust stated recently that out of approximately 10,000 applications for emancipation in the state of Georgia for the year 2005, 12 were granted; 9,988 were turned down. There is no reason to believe that other states are different.
Emancipation does not mean going to live with someone other than your parents. It means supporting yourself, TOTALLY. A couple hundred a month will not pay for rent, utilities, telephone, clothing, transportation, school supplies, medical care, shoes, shampoo, telephone, internet connection, etc. And without a sufficient income to pay for all of the above, not to mention a place to live that does NOT mean living with someone else, no judge will even consider emancipation.
Not being happy is not sufficient reason for a judge to emancipate you.
You need to get the idea of being emancipated out of your head, because the chance of it happening is somewhere between slim and non.